Module 2 XML Basics - Stanford University

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Politics of experience by Ronald Laing, published in 1967 Item number:320070381076<  ...
Module 2 XML Basics

(XML, Namespaces, Usage scenarios, DTDs)

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History: SGML vs. HTML vs. XML SGML (1960) XML(1996)

HTML(1990) XHTML(2000)

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/ 2

Why XML ? 

HTML is to be interpreted by browsers 



Shown on the screen to a human

Desire to separate the “content” from “presentation” Presentation has to please the human eye  Content can be interpreted by machines, for machines presentation is a handicap 



Semantic markup of the data 3

Information about a book in HTML